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Ceremonial Presentation of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Air date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 10:00:00 AM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
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Category: Special
Runtime: 00:45:21
Description: The Ceremonial Presentation of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr. Harvey J. Alter for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Nobel Laureate Dr. Alter shares the prize with Michael Houghton, University of Alberta, and Charles Rice, Rockefeller University. Traditionally, Dr. Alter would have traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to receive his Nobel Prize. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nobel medal and diploma were presented to him on the NIH campus by the Swedish Ambassador Karin Olofstotter. NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins provided opening and closing remarks at the ceremony. Additional congratulatory remarks were provided by NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Clinical Center (CC) CEO Dr. James Gilman, Acting Chief of the Infectious Diseases Section in the CC Department of Transfusion Medicine Dr. Valeria De Giorgi and Dr. Henric Johnson, the Swedish Science and Innovation Counsellor to the U.S. For more information on Dr. Alter’s award-winning research, please visit: https://www.nih.gov/harvey-alter-md-wins-2020-nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine
Author: Nobel Laureate Dr. Harvey J. Alter, NIH
 
CIT Live ID: 41229
Permanent link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=41229